Orkney

• The Ring of Brodgar

  Highlands & Islands × Scotland × UNESCO World Heritage Sites

  

  Scotland’s largest stone circle, free to visit year-round, sits at the centre of a Neolithic landscape that’s still actively being excavated — including a real Time Team dig that returned to the site in July 2026.

• Skara Brae Visitor Centre (Orkney)

  Highlands & Islands × Scotland × UNESCO World Heritage Sites

  

  A storm uncovered it in 1850, and it’s been rewriting the timeline of prehistoric Britain ever since — here’s what makes Orkney’s Neolithic village older than Stonehenge, and everything you need to visit it.